Team Gore’: Trilateral Retreads, Eco-Fascists, and Right-Wing Zionists

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‘Team Gore’: Trilateral Retreads, Eco-Fascists, and Right-Wing Zionists

by Scott Thompson

If you still occasionally wake up in the middle of the night in married Danielle Luzzato, whose family, of the Venetian oli- a cold sweat, recalling the “bad old days” when Jimmy Carter garchy, came to the United States during the Second World was President, when nuclear energy was taken down, as fuel War. Gardner was a Rhodes Scholar (1951-53), and he re- prices skyrocketed, and when Federal Reserve Chairman Paul ceived his PhD from Oxford University in 1954. Volcker was driving up interest rates past 20%, then hold onto Unlike Bill Clinton, who as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford your seat, because “Team Gore,” the core foreign and national had found British class society repugnant, Gardner became a security policy group clustered around wanna-be President Al rabid Anglophile. For example, Gardner adheres to a form of Gore, is nothing but a retread of the Carter Administration—a the late Earl Bertrand Russell’s “one-worldism” policy, as gang of Trilateral Commission has-beens, peppered with a demonstrated by his 1964 book In Pursuit of World Order. new generation of rabid right-wing Zionists. But, he disagrees with Russell’s anti-Americanism. If you add to the equation the presence of “deep ecologist” Gardner’s longest teaching assignment has been with Co- Maurice Strong, one of Gore’s “mentors” and a leading figure lumbia University, and he rose through the ranks of academia in the Gore kitchen cabinet, the whole scene stinks of world to become the Henry L. Moses professor of law and interna- government, savage Malthusianism, and a heavy dose of tional organizations, taking frequent leaves of absence from “Greater Israel” zealotry. Columbia to hold government positions. He has also been As a public service, we provide the following profile of “of counsel” with two top Wall Street law firms, including Team Gore. Coudert Brothers, while serving at Columbia University. Gardner’s government service began under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations in the U.S. State Department, Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Group but he has held multiple positions as a U.S. representative or adviser to the U.S. delegation to the UN. Most significantly, Ambassador Marc Ginsberg is one of two Senior Coordi- he worked with Gore kitchen cabinet member Maurice nating Advisers to the Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Group. Strong, who is one of the world’s leading genocidalists (see This collection of some two dozen people, whom he is vetting below), while serving as a consultant to the UN Secretary with his counterpart, Dr. Bruce Jentleson, is to grow to 100 General on the UN Conference on the Environment in 1972, people, who would form the core of a Gore transition team. and, again, in the same capacity with the 1992 UN Conference If, on the outside chance that Vice President Gore is elected on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. President, they would be the principal manpower pool from Throughout the Carter Administration (1977-81), he was which foreign policy and national security officials would U.S. Ambassador to Italy. In 1988, Gardner was foreign pol- be selected. icy adviser to then-Senator Gore, in Gore’s first campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. From 1993 to July Ambassador Richard 13, 1997, during the Clinton Administration, he served as Newton Gardner U.S. Ambassador to Spain. Ambassador Gardner, who Gardner is a member of the board of directors of Freedom is a member of the highest levels House, the UN Association, Foreign Policy Association, the of the Anglo-Venetian oligar- International League for Human Rights, and the National En- chy, is one of two experts on Eu- dowment for Democracy’s core institute, the National Demo- rope on the Gore 2000 Foreign cratic Institute for International Affairs, part of the Project Advisory Group, and handles Democracy apparatus which has been accused of acting as a Gore policy toward the United “secret, parallel government.” He is a member of the New Nations and international orga- York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral nizations. Commission, as well as having served (1988-92) as co-chair- On June 10, 1956, Gardner man of the Aspen Institute Program on the United Nations

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© 2000 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Jimmy Carter, the Trilateral Commission President, with members of his Cabinet, including Cyrus Vance (to his right) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (behind Carter’s left shoulder). The Gore advisory team is a motley crew of Carter Administration and Trilateral Commission has-beens. and Collective Security, which had been established under like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William the auspices of the U.S. and Russian UN Associations. James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around Today, Gardner moves in the highest circles of the Anglo- national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accom- Venetian establishment. One longtime close friend is Arthur plish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault” (em- Ross, who has served as the British intelligence station chief phasis added). in New York City. Gardner proceeds with a list of ten goals that might be One of Gardner’s most notable, Russellite one-worldist achieved through his “world order.” The top four include: pieces appeared in the Summer 1974 issue of the CFR’s For- 1. Gardner hones in on President Richard Nixon’s ending eign Affairs magazine, in which he argues that, to date, such the Bretton Woods system, stating: “The non-Communist na- one-worldist policies as “world federalism,” “charter review” tions are embarked on a long-term negotiation for the reform for the UN, and “world peace through world law,” have failed of the international monetary system, aimed at developing a in the face of rising nationalism and will have to be imple- new system of reserves and settlements to replace the dollar mented piecemeal. Gardner propounds a version of one- standard and at improving the balance-of-payments adjust- worldist, British Fabian-style “permeation,” in which na- ment process. The accomplishment of these objectives would tional sovereignty is eroded step-by-step. This article remains almost surely require a revitalization of the International a cornerstone of the CFR’s ideological superstructure, and it Monetary Fund, which would have unprecedented powers to might be viewed as a leading piece in the march toward to- create new international reserves and to inﬂuence national day’s policies of globalization. decisions on exchange rates and on domestic monetary and Gardner complains: “Certainly the gap has never loomed ﬁscal policies.” larger between the objectives and the capacities of the interna- 2. Presaging the creation of the World Trade Organiza- tional organizations that were supposed to get mankind on tion, Gardner writes: “New standards are also envisaged to the road to world order. We are witnessing an outbreak of regulate protectionist measures to cope with ‘market disrup- shortsighted nationalism that seems oblivious to the tion’ from imports. To make these new rules of the game economic, political, and moral implications of interdepen- meaningful, GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and dence. . . . Trade, the precursor of the WTO] arrangements for consulta- “In short, ‘the house of world order’ will have to be built tion, conciliation, and enforcement of its decisions will have from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look to be greatly improved.”

EIR July 28, 2000 National 69 3. Coming after the 1972 UN Conference on the Environ- Gore for well over a decade. ment, he proposes international environmental regulation: Strong was a co-founder with Prince Philip of the secre- “The next few years should see a continued strengthening of tive 1001 Club, the main piggybank of the green-genocidalist the new global and regional agencies charged with protecting World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The other 1001 Club initiator the world’s environment. In addition to comprehensive moni- was former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Nether- toring of the earth’s air, water, and soil and of the effects lands. of pollutants on human health, we can look forward to new Strong was WWF vice president during the decade that procedures to implement the principle of state responsibility Prince Philip was its president, and is a politician and busi- for national actions that have transnational environmental nessman extraordinaire. Strong handpicked the entire Cana- consequences, probably including some kind of ‘international dian membership of the 1001 Club, from its inception in 1967, environmental impact statement’ procedure by which at least and thereby created what he admits might well be called “The some nations agree to have certain kinds of environmental Strong Kindergarten.” Among the 80 or so “initiates” into the decisions reviewed by independent scientific authorities.” 1001 Club from Canada are: This seems to presage the 1997 UN-sponsored Kyoto Proto- Maj. Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, the late head of the col on reducing “greenhouse gases” that Vice President Gore Montreal-based British intelligence front company Permin- has promoted. dex (Permanent Industrial Expositions), which was accused 4. Gardner’s road to world order also includes Malthusian by the French secret services and New Orleans District Attor- zero population growth: “We are entering a wholly new phase ney Jim Garrison of financing the attempted assassinations of of international concern and international action on the popu- President Charles de Gaulle and the murder of President John lation problem, dramatized by the holding this year of the first F. Kennedy, respectively. World Population Conference to take place at the political Conrad Black, head of the Hollinger International Com- level. By the end of this decade, a majority of nations are likely pany, the British-steered global media cartel behind the at- to have explicit population policies, many of them designed to tacks on President Clinton. achieve zero population growth by a specific target date” Peter Munk, the owner of Barrick Gold, the Canadian (emphasis added). This statement in favor of population con- mining company involved with both former U.S. President trol was nearly coincident with National Security Study Mem- George Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian orandum 200 by National Security Adviser and Secretary Mulroney in a worldwide raw materials grab, including try- of State Sir Henry Kissinger, which said that it was in U.S. ing to buy U.S. government-owned gold deposits at fire- national security interests to markedly reduce the populations sale prices. of especially darker-skinned peoples—a theme dear to Be- In order to fully appreciate the following interview, we rtrand Russell’s heart. provide first, a brief biographical sketch of Strong, princi- Toward the conclusion of the piece, Gardner remarks: pally as presented in Elaine Dewar’s excellent book, Cloak “Thus, while we will not see ‘world government’ in the old- of Green (Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1995). fashioned sense of a single all-embracing global authority, Undoubtedly, one of the main reasons for Strong’s rapid rise key elements of planetary planning and planetary manage- through oligarchic circles is his sponsorship by a member of ment will come about on those very specific problems where the American branch of his family, Anna Louise Strong, the facts of interdependence force nations, in their enlightened who is to all appearances a top-level member of what EIR self-interest, to abandon unilateral decision-making in favor has detailed as “The Trust,” the Anglo-Soviet oligarchical of multilateral processes.” back channel. Like Gore’s family patron, Dr. Armand Ham- mer, Anna Louise Strong had early cultivated ties to the Maurice Strong heads of state of the Soviet Union, China, and the United Born into the family of a States. Canadian railroad man who One of Strong’s first big breaks was to become head was laid off during the Depres- of the Power Corporation, a junior octopus of oil and gas sion, Strong has become one of companies, which permitted him to provide patronage jobs. the most important eco-fas- One person he hired was James D. Wolfensohn, a Harvard cists, who has had frequent MBA, to run Power Corp.’s Australian-based subsidiary, meetings with Prince Philip SuperPower International. After a career as a private invest- and Prince Charles, as well as ment banker on Wall Street, Sir James Wolfensohn is today being one of the most impor- head of the World Bank, and a partner with Prince Philip tant members of Gore’s in his genocidal schemes to change the orientation of the kitchen cabinet. Today, Strong bank away from great projects toward funding “sustain- is Undersecretary General of the United Nations and chair- able development.” man of the Earth Council. Strong has worked intimately with Strong left his high-paying job with Power to take over

70 National EIR July 28, 2000 Canada’s External Aid program. Through a combination of quite properly in the broader context of how you manage public-private covert operations, and with charitable contri- the economy, how you manage society generally. Whereas butions from the likes of John J. McCloy of the Rockefeller Prince Philip has seen it much more narrowly in traditional Foundation, he spread environmentalist propaganda through- conservationist terms.”1 out the world. In 1969, Strong got a call from the Swedish Ambassador Ambassador Robert E. Hunter to the UN, whose country had pushed through a resolution Ambassador Hunter is, together with Gardner, in charge to hold an international conference on the environment in of European policy for the Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Stockholm in 1972, asking Strong to take responsibility for Group. Like Gardner, Hunter is a rabid Anglophile, who got this first-ever such conference. Canada’s Liberal Party Prime his PhD from the London School of Economics, where he Minister, Pierre Trudeau, agreed to the appointment, and studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. He had also been a Re- Strong went to New York, both as a UN Undersecretary Gen- search Associate at the premier private British military think- eral reporting to Secretary General U Thant, and as Secretary tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), General of the Stockholm Conference. in 1967, and then again in 1968-69. As Dewar reports: “As the Stockholm Conference opened During the Carter Administration, Hunter worked under in 1972, Strong warned urgently about the onset of global the “looney-tunes” National Security Adviser, Zbigniew warming, the devastation of forests, the loss of biodiversity, Brzezinski, first as Director for West European Affairs at the the polluted oceans, and the population time bomb. . . . As I National Security Council (1977-79), and then as Director of read this old speech, I realized it could almost be repeated at Middle East Affairs (1979-81), where he was involved in the Rio Summit.” One by-product of the Stockholm Confer- dealing with the Iranian seizure of American hostages. ence was the formation of a new UN bureaucracy, the United When President Carter lost re-election in 1981, Hunter Nations Environment Program (UNEP). followed Brzezinski to the Center for Strategic and Interna- In 1992, Strong served as Secretary General of the UN tional Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., where he became Conference on the Environment and Development, which be- a Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies (1981-89), then Di- came variously known as Rio 92 or Eco 92. Strong, who was rector of European Studies, while also serving as the think- later to be UNEP Secretary General, created the Earth Council tank’s Vice President for International Politics (1989-93). His out of that. Iranian wife, Shireen T. Hunter, also worked with him at Strong knew that the Rio summit was aimed at destroying CSIS. the sovereign nation-state republic. And, he relied heavily on During the Reagan Administration, Hunter served as a his pal, Al Gore, to convince the U.S. government to partici- Senior Consultant to the Commission on Central America pate at the heads-of-state level. (1983-84), which was headed by Sir Henry Kissinger, who Also, at the 1997 Kyoto summit, where Strong was the was then a Counselor at CSIS with Brzezinski. representative of the UN Secretary General, it was Gore, to- Hunter was one of the originators of the National Endow- gether with Gore’s longtime friend, British Prime Minister ment for Democracy, along with Samuel Huntington, another Tony Blair, who pushed through a resolution for the reduction Brzezinski prote´ge´ and Trilateral Commission official. of so-called “greenhouse gas emissions” for the ostensibly Hunter has served on the board of directors of one of its core “industrialized nations,” at levels that would mean economic institutions, the National Democratic Institute for Interna- devastation worse than that of the Great Depression. tional Affairs. On Jan. 20, 1999, in an interview with this author, Strong Hunter was appointed Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to made the following points about Gore: Gov. Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaign in 1991-92. During “My own contact with Vice President Gore goes back to the Clinton Administration, Hunter was appointed U.S. Per- well before his Vice Presidency, particularly the time when manent Representative (Ambassador) to the North Atlantic he was so active in the Senate. And, as you know, the Senate Council (July 1993-January 1998). is really one of the most effective in the whole environmental Hunter is today a Senior Adviser at the RAND Corp. in field. He was very active in the Global Parliamentarians Washington, D.C. He is also vice president of the Atlantic movement, and, in fact, was instrumental in helping to form Treaty Association, and he serves on Secretary of Defense the Association of Global Parliamentarians.... William Cohen’s Defense Policy Board. He is also an Associ- “[Gore] has got a good relationship with [Princes] Charles ate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as well as Philip. . . . As a matter of fact, in my view, he’s much closer to Charles’s views, than to Philip’s views. I was actually Philip’s vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, 1. For more on the background of Maurice Strong and EIR’s exclusive interview with him, which also includes Strong’s version of the corrupt deal with and, while he has given his substantial reputation, lending it Peter Knight, who is now Vice President Gore’s chief fund-raiser, see Scott to the World Wildlife Fund, his own view of environmental Thompson, “Maurice Strong Discusses His Pal Al Gore’s Dark Age ‘Cloak issues is very much narrower than that of Al Gore. Al sees it of Green,’ ” EIR, Jan. 29, 1999.

EIR July 28, 2000 National 71 at Harvard University, where he is associated with “Team dependent on the correlation of forces. And therefore, until Gore” member Dr. Graham Allison (see below). the Colombian military had a greater capacity, I don’t think As U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Hunter participated in at they’re going to negotiate more seriously. That’s why I think least one meeting of the Bilderberg Society in Helsinki in some support to the Colombian military is appropriate.” 1994, where speakers included George Soros and Kissinger. In the interview, Dr. Pastor said that the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, is really part of Central America, and that Dr. Robert A. Pastor it ought to be given “indigenist rights” under the Mexican Dr. Pastor is in charge of Constitution. Latin American policy for the One of the most damning documents by Pastor, which Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory demonstrates his hatred for the sovereign nation-state, is an Group. During the Carter Ad- article in the Fall 1992 issue of Foreign Policy magazine, ministration, he was the Direc- entitled, “The Latin American Option.” In it, he echoes the tor of Latin American and call of former World Bank President Robert McNamara for a Caribbean Affairs on the Na- 50% cut in the size of the militaries within one year, for all tional Security Council under the nations of the Americas except for the United States. Pas- Brzezinski (1977-81). During tor also calls for the creation of a multilateral military force, 1986-98, Pastor was a Carter to be associated with the Organization of American States, Center Fellow, and the Found- that would handle regional problems ranging from “drug traf- ing Director of the Carter Center’s Latin American and Carib- fickers” to “territorial disputes.” bean Program. During those years, Pastor monitored 17 elections in 10 countries in the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Graham T. Allison, Jr. In 1998, Pastor resigned from the Carter Center to become Dr. Allison is in charge of Russia policy for the Gore 2000 a Professor of Political Science at Emory University in Foreign Advisory Group. He received a BA from Harvard in Georgeia, which is affiliated with the Carter Center. 1962, a BA and MA from Hertford College, Oxford in 1964, Most recently, Pastor served as the head of the delegation and returned to Oxford to complete his PhD in 1968. He from the Carter Center to Mexico, on June 28-July 4, to moni- has held several positions at the John F. Kennedy School of tor the Presidential elections in which the Institutional Revo- Government at Harvard, including dean (1977-89) and lutionary Party (PRI) was defeated after 71 years of rule. In Douglas Dillon Professor of Government (1989-). He is today an interview with this author on July 12, Pastor expressed Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International great happiness at the PRI’s defeat. Affairs at the Kennedy School, where one of his associates is However, when this author asked Pastor about the narco- “Team Gore” member Ambassador Robert Hunter. trafficking Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Dr. Allison was Special Advisor to Secretary of Defense (FARC), he revealed that he had not only negotiated prisoner Caspar Weinberger (1985-87), and has been a member of the releases with the FARC, including having talked with its com- Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board for Secretaries manders, but also that the only reason why he favors any U.S. Weinberger, Frank Carlucci, Richard Cheney, Les Aspin, military aid to Colombia, is so that that nation might be better William Perry, and William Cohen. able to negotiate from a position of strength with the FARC He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy narco-terrorists—rather than wage a total war against them, and Plans (January 1993-March 1994), during which time he as Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori had successfully done was in charge of formulating Department of Defense strategy against Shining Path. and policy toward Russia, Ukraine, and other states of the Pastor boasted about his role as arbiter with the FARC: former Soviet Union. “Well, it’s just that both the government and the FARC have He was a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, been in touch with me. I’d been in touch with both at many and remained an active member throughout the formation of different times, and both of them asked if I would come down the Carter Administration and beyond (1974-84). He is today to see if I could put the finishing touches on it, understanding a director of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. that they were negotiating for release of 77 soldiers that had With Russia’s Yabloko Party leader Grigory Yavlinsky, been captured by the FARC about a year and a half ago. So, I Allison co-authored “The Grand Bargain,” a 1991 plan which flew down to Bogota´, and then went down to Caqueta in the failed to be implemented, but which had called for a crash southern part of the country, and met with the commanders program of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-style “shock of the FARC and met with the President and Foreign Minister therapy,” combined with “democratization” of the former So- and others. We put that together pretty quickly.” viet Union. More recently, Dr. Allison has testified on several He continued, “I think the FARC are very realistic. You occasions before Congress on how the Soviet economic col- know they still are Marxist, and believe that bargaining is lapse has led to a situation in which there are “loose nukes,”

72 National EIR July 28, 2000 that might be used by terrorist organizations or “rogue states” the White House Office on Environmental Quality, starting for attacks upon the United States. in January 1993. When the Office on Environmental Quality According to Dr. Allison’s executive secretary, he has was merged with the CEQ, McGinty served briefly as chair- frequently discussed U.S. policy toward Russia with global person of the new agency, before leaving on Oct. 30, 1998, speculator and drug legalization advocate George Soros. apparently to lay low at an assignment in India, until the Gore 2000 campaign. Dr. Elaine C. Kamarck In his farewell to McGinty when she stepped down from Dr. Kamarck is a leading member of Gore’s kitchen cabi- the CEQ, Gore commented: “She has steered this Administra- net, who has taken a leave of absence from Harvard University tion through some extraordinarily complex and contentious to work on his campaign. She got her start in politics during issues, working hard to build consensus in our country and the Carter campaign, when she was Director of Special Proj- making sure always that the environment came out on top.” ects for the Carter-Mondale Presidential campaign, and a staff Well-informed sources have stated that the reason why member of the Democratic National Committee. she left the United States, was that her environmental views At Harvard, Dr. Kamarck directs the John F. Kennedy were too radical, and it was feared that she might become a School of Government’s research program, Visions of Gover- major embarrassment for Gore. Why she is suddenly back, is nance for the 21st Century. yet one more mystery surrounding the foundering Gore cam- She became a staff member to Vice President Gore in paign. March 1993, where her tasks included the grandiose “Na- tional Performance Review,” otherwise known as “Rein- venting Government” project. She also worked on the Clinton Administration’s disastrous 1996 Welfare Reform Act; in an interview with this author, she disputed “Dirty Dick” Morris’s Kamarck Ramrods Gore seminal role in putting this policy through, claiming that it had been a Clinton/Gore policy from day one. Prior to joining Platform Committee the Clinton Administration, Dr. Kamarck was a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, which is the think-tank of As Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche’s the “New Democrat” bastion, the Democratic Leadership spokeswoman Debra Hanania-Freeman reported in the Council. July 21 EIR (p. 80), Elaine Kamarck virtually ran a Gestapo operation to stop dissent during the official Kathleen A. McGinty Democratic Party Platform Committee hearings in St. “Katy” McGinty is the Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Louis on July 6: Group person in charge of issues dealing with the environ- “The St. Louis hearings were announced with less ment. She has been on Gore’s staff for more than a decade than one week’s advance notice. The witnesses had all (since he was a Senator) working as his Senior Legislative been pre-selected, and requests by leading trade union Assistant for Energy and Environmental Policy. A close and Democratic elected officials . . . for an opportunity friend of Maurice Strong, McGinty also served as Congres- to present testimony, were promptly denied. Highly sional Staff Coordinator for the Senate delegation to the UN placed sources close to the DNC report that Elaine Ka- Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Ja- marck . . . oversaw every aspect of the drafting process, neiro in 1992. and had made it very clear from the outset that anything McGinty was one of the leading figures involved with that didn’t mirror Gore themes would not be allowed. Gore in preparing the first, 1992 edition of his book, Earth “North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, who is counted in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (New York: among those being considered to be Gore’s running Houghton Mifflin, 1992), which espouses eliminating 2 bil- mate, chaired the drafting committee. At a St. Louis lion of the Earth’s population. As EIRhas shown, it is impossi- press conference following the day’s last witness, Hunt ble to differentiate between passages from this rant and the declared, ‘You don’t win unless you appeal to Republi- Unabomber’s Manifesto.2 cans and Independents. This is a platform that does During the Clinton Administration, McGinty served that.’ A clearly pleased Kamarck, who held court in the briefly as chairperson of the Council on Environmental Qual- back of the room, said, ‘This is a Gore document. It ity (CEQ). Prior to that appointment in 1995, McGinty had reflects his campaign policies. It reflects the themes he served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director for talks about. And, it reflects the fact that he is in firm control of the party, that he has beat back any and all 2. See Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “On the Crash of the Nasdaq: Information opposition.’ ” Society: A Doomed Empire of Evil,” EIR, April 28, 2000.

EIR July 28, 2000 National 73 gather blackmail material, to force the Clinton Administration The Zionist Lobby into stopping the hunt for “Mega.”3 In a May 19, 2000 debate at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) with Robert Zoellick, one of Texas Leon S. Fuerth Gov. George W. Bush’s “Vulcans” (foreign policy team ad- Leon Fuerth is National Secu- visers), Fuerth was in lock-step with the Bush representative, rity Adviser to Vice President as each tried to outdo the other in showing how belligerent he Gore, and is chairman of the could be against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Both railed Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory that there can be no peace in the Middle East until Saddam Group. In addition, Fuerth sits is gone.4 with the Secretary of State, In a WINEP speech on Oct. 22, 1999 purportedly written Secretary of Defense, and the by Fuerth, Vice President Gore defined the ouster of Saddam President’s National Security as one of his foreign policy priorities, and, again, on May 23, Adviser on an entity known as 2000, at a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Com- the Principals’ Committee, mittee (AIPAC, from which WINEP was created as an off- which has virtually replaced shoot in 1985), Gore announced that he would be meeting the National Security Council as the President’s top foreign with the London-based Iraqi opposition movement. During and national security policy body. As a member of the Princi- both speeches, Gore was toasted with statements that one of pals’ Committee, he has advised President Clinton to pursue his finest moments in the Senate had been when he broke ranks bellicose policies, from the “Desert Fox” bombing of Iraq, to with the majority of Democrats and threw his support behind the war against Yugoslavia over Kosovo. President George Bush’s “Operation Desert Storm.” (That he Fuerth is Gore’s longest-serving staff member. The two traded his support for 20 minutes of prime-time TV, was not met in 1980, after then-Representative Gore was assigned mentioned.) At WINEP, Gore also announced his support for to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the policy of “dual containment” of both Iran and Iraq. where Fuerth was a staff member. Before going to work on Capitol Hill in 1978, Fuerth spent 11 years as a foreign service Dr. Bruce Jentleson officer at the Department of State, where he worked in the Dr. Jentleson and Ambassador Marc Ginsberg (see be- areas of arms control, policy planning, intelligence, and low) are the Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Group Senior Coor- NATO. dinating Advisers, and Jentleson and former Rep. Mel Levine Working on the Hill with Gore, Fuerth ran war-game sce- (D-Calif.) are Gore’s chief advisers on the Middle East. Dr. narios, and eventually assisted Gore in developing his early Jentleson joined the faculty of Duke University in January advocacy of a single-warhead ICBM that became known as 2000, where he is a professor of public policy and political the “Midgetman.” When Gore was elected to the Senate in science. In 1993-94, he was on the State Department Policy 1984, Fuerth became his Senior Legislative Assistant for Na- Planning Staff as Special Assistant to the Director, where his tional Security, advising Gore on arms control, space policy, activities included serving as a member of the U.S. delegation international trade, and global environmental issues. to the Middle East Multilateral Arms Control and Regional As National Security Adviser to Vice President Gore, Security Talks. Fuerth manages the Bi-National Commissions with Russia, In 1987-88, while a CFR Fellow, he served as foreign South Africa, Egypt, Ukraine, and Kazakstan. policy adviser to then-Senator Gore. Before receiving his PhD Fuerth is a rabid member of the right-wing Zionist lobby. from Cornell University, he completed his Master’s at the In a story which received remarkably little attention, the London School of Economics. Washington Post reported in 1998 that “some officials in the Dr. Jentleson had also been a member of the WINEP State Department believe that he is the conduit by which in- “Presidential Study Group,” euphemistically entitled “Build- side information is passed to Israeli Prime Minister Benja- ing Security and Peace in the Middle East,” convened in 1996. min Netanyahu.” On March 24, 1997, two days before Secretary of State Made- As EIR had earlier documented, Fuerth was suspected of leine Albright was scheduled to deliver her first major speech being the Israeli “agent-of-influence” known as “Mega,” who on Middle East policy, WINEP released a “Policywatch” was uncovered through electronic eavesdropping upon the statement based on the chief study from that report, entitled Israeli Mossad when Netanyahu was Prime Minister. So high- level was this “agent-of-influence,” that the Mossad chief is 3. For more on “Mega” and how the Israeli Mossad may have blackmailed heard in the intercept, refusing to permit him to be used for President Clinton, see Edward Spannaus, “What Is the Israeli Blackmail on espionage, where many others could do that job. However, Clinton?” EIR, June 23, 2000. as the story developed, Prime Minister Netanyahu had the 4. See Jeffrey Steinberg, “U.S. Zionist Mafia Is Pressing for War in the Mossad place a wiretap on Monica Lewinsky’s phone, to Middle East,” EIR, June 23, 2000.

74 National EIR July 28, 2000 “Beyond ‘Containment’ of Iraq: An Action Plan for U.S. Pol- Signatories of this WINEP Presidential Study Group re- icy.” The following is a quote from the report: port not only included Dr. Jentleson, but also two of George “To improve upon the Administration’s current ‘contain- W. Bush’s “Vulcans”—former Undersecretary of Defense ment’ strategy, the Study Group believes that the Administra- Paul Wolfowitz and former Undersecretary of State Robert tion’s top priority should be to take steps that hasten the de- Zoellick. mise of Saddam Hussein’s regime while preserving Iraq’s national unity and territorial integrity.... Ambassador Marc Ginsberg “The United States should clarify its declared policy on Ambassador Ginsberg, who vets potential members of the Iraq, stating categorically that it opposes the lifting of UN Gore 2000 Foreign Advisory Group, is also no stranger to sanctions or any potential reconciliation with Iraq without a WINEP, having helped lead two of its tours of the Middle change in regime in Baghdad.... East. During the Carter Administration, Ginsberg served as “The United States should adopt a more aggressive ap- Special Assistant to the U.S. State Department’s Undersecre- proach toward military responses to Iraqi provocations com- tary for Management (1977-80), then brieﬂy as Deputy Senior mensurate with the objective of hastening the demise of Sad- Adviser to the President for Middle East Affairs (1980-81). dam’s regime. . . . These provocations should be viewed as During the Clinton Administration, he served as U.S. Ambas- opportunities to inﬂict as much damage as practically and sador to Morocco (1993-96), and subsequently as U.S. Coor- logistically possible on core regime assets and personnel. dinator for Mediterranean Trade, Investment, and National Among these are the headquarters and barracks of the Repub- Security Affairs until 1998. He now has his own investment lican Guard, the Special Republican Guard and various intel- business. ligence services, as well as Saddam’s own military headquar- In an interview with this author on June 24, 2000, Gins- ters in Baghdad, Tikrit, or elsewhere.... berg said that Gore would pursue a special relationship toward “Believing, as we do, in the near inevitability of future both Britain and Israel, saying: “I think that there’s no doubt clashes with Saddam, it is far better for the United States to that the United States has a fundamental special relationship clarify its objectives and take the initiative now, while its with Great Britain. And, the Vice President, I think as late as regional assets remain strong, rather than permit Saddam to yesterday morning, articulated the unique nature of the special determine the pace and direction of events.” relationship with Israel.” KNOW YOUR HISTORY! America’s Battle with Britain Continues Today

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